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figured in Schkuhr’s work, and is therefore interesting to the 
lovers of that large and difficult genus. ‘The American speci- 
mens were mostly derived from Willdenow, who obtained the 
greater portion from Muhlenberg. é 
The royal Prussian herbarium is deposited at Schéneberg, (a 
little village in the environs of Berlin, ) opposite the royal botanic 
garden, and in the garden of the Horticultural Society. It oc- 
cupies a very convenient building erected for its reception, and is 
under the superintendence of Dr. Klotzsch, a very zealous and 
promising botanist. It comprises three separate herbaria, viz. 
the general herbarium, the herbarium of Willdenow, and the 
Brazilian herbarium of Sello. The principal contributions of the 
plants of this country to the general herbarium, garden specimens 
excepted, consist of the collections of the late Mr. Beyrich, who 
died in Western Arkansas while accompanying Col. Dodge’s dra- 
goon expedition, and a collection of the plants of Missouri and 
Arkansas, by Dr. Engelmann, now of St. Louis; to which a fine 
selection of North American plants, recently presented by Sir 
William Hooker, has been added. The. botanical collections 
made by Chamisso, who accompanied Romanzoff in his voyage 
round the world, also enrich this herbarium ; many are from the 
coast of Russian America and from California ; and they have 
mostly been published conjointly by the late Von Chamisso and 
Prof. Schlechtendal in the Linnea, edited by the latter. 
The late Prof. Willdenow enjoyed for many years the corre- 
spondence of Muhlenberg, from whom he received the greater 
part of his North American specimens, a considerable portion of 
which are authentic for the North American plants of his edition 
of the Species Plantarum. - In addition to these, we find in his 
herbarium many of Michaux’s plants, communicated by Desfon- 
taines, several from the German collector, Kinn, and perhaps all 
the American Species described by Willdenow from the Berlin 
garden. It also comprises a portion of the herbarium of Pallas, 
the Siberian plants of Stephen, and a tolerable set of Humboldt’s 
Plants. This herbarium is in good preservation, and is kept in 
Perfect order and extreme neatness. As left by Willdenow, the 
specimens were loose in the covers, into which additional speci- 
mens had sometimes been thrown, and the labels often mixed, so 
that much caution is requisite to ascertain which are really au- 
thentic for the Willdenovian species. To prevent farther sources 
ol. xt, No. 1.—Oct.-Dee. 1840, 3 
“we 
